It’s not sensationalizing to suggest that New York is in dire need of an economic shot in the arm. So the suggestion this week that the reopening of casinos could be the one-armed bandit that could come to the rescue of the Big Apple is a fascinating one.

From live poker to table games, casinos generate money and New York, at the epicentre of a major COVID-19 outbreak earlier in the year, suffering as many deaths from Coronavirus as some European countries, is in desperate need of economic recovery.

As our own Erik Gibbs reported last week, New York’s citizens have been less than happy with this, and were threatening to march in protest at the state of play.

As reported by the Daily Gazette, that’s exactly what happened, as New Yorkers marched on State Capitol building in Albany to ask Governor Cuomo to open up the lucrative areas of business.